Hand-roasted Hojicha Mino Shirakawa 500g

The Fun of Makng Your Own Hojicha!♪

Our representative product, ZENJIRO Hojicha, is unroasted tea from Mino Shirakawa. A new special edition product commemorating the 450th anniversary of Kuroda Kyubei was born.

Make your own roasted green tea (hojicha) using precious Mino Shirakawa tea, which is only 0.1% of the production in Japan. Just dry roast it in a frying pan.

The trick to dry-roasting is to see when the smoke rises and how the tea leaves turn brown. When you turn off the heat, it is easier to get the timing right to cool the frying pan quickly so that the remaining heat does not advance the roasting. Don't forget the ventilation fan.

Once you get used to it, you will be able to make light roasted hojicha and dark roasted hojicha to your liking. The appeal of hand-roasted hojicha is the fragrant aroma of freshly roasted tea.

You can enjoy it with either cold brew or hot tea. In the case of cold brew, it is best to add room temperature water and carefully extract for 1 hour in the refrigerator. For warm tea, brew with hot water around 90˚C.

Please spend a healthy day relaxing both physically and mentally with the rich Mino Shirakawa hojicha tea.

*For your reference: Information on tea production areas is also introduced on the "Producing Area" page.